The human superorganism - Of microbes and men

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 214-215

  Sleator, Roy D ^a,b  

^a Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BACTERIAL CELL; EDITORIAL; EUKARYOTE; HOST; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SELF CONCEPT; SYMBIONT; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; GENOMICS; HUMANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 72449121799     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.08.047     Document Type: Editorial

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